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Evanston Symphony Orchestra

Lawrence Eckerling, Music Director

Evanston Symphony Holiday Concert

Sunday, December 13, 2026 — 3:00 pm

Make sure your holiday season starts with the best holiday event in Evanston!

Special rates for a family package of 2 adult tickets and 3 children’s tickets.

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A Very Special Concert:
An inclusive holiday celebration

Sunday, December 13, 2026 — 12:30–1:15 p.m.

$5 per adult. Persons under 18 are free. Phone reservations required.

Join the Evanston Symphony Orchestra for an inclusive celebration of Holiday music. Our shortened holiday concert welcomes those who vocalize, move, and have diverse ways of experiencing music.

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Great Romantics

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April 4, 2027

Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

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May 23, 2027

A Mass for Peace

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Musical Insights

Free Pre-Concert Preview Series!

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Enhance your concert experience with a sneak preview — Composers come alive and their passions take center stage when ESO Maestro Lawrence Eckerling takes you on an insider’s tour of the history and highlights behind the music. Get a chance to see and hear our guest soloist for each concert!

Merion’s Crystal Ballroom

529 Davis St, Evanston.
FREE and open to the public.

Please RSVP to 847-570-7815.

Light refreshments will be served and casual tours of apartments will be available after the program.

Orchestra News

June 2025 concert videos

Please enjoy these wonderful videos from our June concert. 

Ko-Eun Yi playing Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major.

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Ko-Eun Yi
Meet Ko-Eun Yi!

Ko-Eun Yi was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. While no one in her family is a musician — her father is a consultant for start-up businesses and her mother spends significant time as a ­volunteer — her parents love music and there was always a lot of it in their home.

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Les Jacobson writes in Evanston Roundtable: "On playing the Shostakovich 5th Symphony"

I’ve written about the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony before. It’s one of the masterworks of the classical repertoire, alongside the great symphonies of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Mahler. But it’s also a great deal more. A man’s life depended on this symphony. That man was the composer himself.

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Musical Notes

Orchestral Wizardry and Russian Folk Music

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French and American citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music. 

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The Post-Tchaikovsky Generation

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) was a late Romantic Russian composer, conductor, and music teacher following the “Tchaikovsky era.” 

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Spain in Sound: Romance, Drama, and Heat

Spain has long been the subject and source of artistic creativity, with many drawn to its beauty, rhythms, and heat. In this program, that spirit comes to life through two very different lenses: the outsider’s fascination with Georges Bizet and the insider’s interpretation by Manuel de Falla.

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